For over twenty years ranchers on our southern border have stood alone, overrun withsmugglers, criminals, illegal immigrants, and terrorists. As our government turned a blind eye totheir plight they maintained their way of life and attempted to alert the country of the comingdanger. One If by Land gives voice to their story. Today, men and women of lawenforcement join the ranchers and together they expose the government policies that havetenaciously maintained an open, lawless, and deadly bor...

For four years, a radical cult conducted a campaign of harassment and intimidation against the residents of Cochise County, Arizona. When everything came to a head at the tragicshootout at Miracle Valley, religious groups, politicians, civil rights advocates, and many in themedia reacted with outrage -- a hysteria based on their own bigotry, ignorance, and selfinterest.The Search for Justice chronicles the events that led to the shootout and thetumultuous events that occurred afterward. It te...

The concept of “Place” has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough examination of the topic, dividing its exploration into four broad areas.Place-Based Conservation provides a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners to hel...

A little over one hundred years after the legendary shootout at the OK Corral, a radicalSouth Chicago preacher named Frances Thomas moved to Miracle Valley, Arizona. She broughtnot only her congregation, but also a dangerous cocktail of fanaticism, faith healing, bigotry,and dynamite. Believing that God had called her to take over Miracle Valley, Pastor Thomas andher cult of followers set out to do just that -- with explosive results.About theAuthorWilliam R. Daniel was born and raised in the...

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for...

A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects . . .The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers' Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done, plus a rogues' gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and cr...

From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson, featuring a new introduction from award-winning author and staff writer at The New Yorker Jon Lee Anderson.Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When t...

A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illeg...

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by violenc...

It began with a frantic 911 call from a woman in a dusty Arizona border town. A gang claiming to be affiliated with the Border Patrol had shot her husband and daughter. It was initially assumed that the murders were products of border drug wars ravaging the Southwest until the leader of one of the more prominent offshoots of the Minutemen movement was arrested for plotting the home invasion as part of a scheme to finance a violent antigovernment border militia.And Hell Followed...

“At McCain Investigations, I’d be sent looking for people who didn’t want to be found, following guys who didn’t want to be followed, and entering neighborhoods where I was not at all welcome. There would be no commercials, no time-outs, no ‘do-overs’ if somebody got shot or stabbed or run over. These guys were playing for keeps.”Seasoned journalist and adventurer Jay Atkinson spent a year working as a rookie private eye for the storied firm McCain Investigations, founded ...

A Texas governor wants to be president. His wife wants to escape his suffocating ambition. A Mexican drug lord wants him dead. When the drug lord abducts the governor's wife while she is working secretly as a nurse in a colonia on the border, Governor Bode Bonner must choose between his wife and the White House, between his life and hers.No. 2, IrelandNo. 8, South AfricaNo. 22, UK"A breathtaking read." – Joburg.co.za (South Africa)"It could have been t...